The Swedish-American journalist "John P Anderson"
is back
with an increased story of his thoughts about Olof Palme
and the Palmemurder - including his first article on Leopold Report.BUT THE HEADLINE IS THE SAME:George Bush and the CIA behind
the assassination of primeminister
OLOF PALME

The Swedish-American journalist John P Anderson has for eleven years
studied the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as well as
the CIA's operational methods and history. He believes that the murder of
Olof Palme was a CIA operation.
His theory is that then Vice President George Bush, who also was a former
head of the CIA, and the CIA Chief of the time, William Casey, together
used President Ronald Reagan as an involuntary tool to implement the operation
against Palme.

The Tower Commission investigated the operations of the National Security
Council at the White House. This included the Iran-Contra scandal, which
was first disclosed in November, 1986, and later developed day by day. The
Commission was the first of a long row of investigations that gradually
uncovered much more. However, they all left the impression that far from
all had been revealed.

LR has already started a series of articles that step by step will reveal
that the Palme murder indeed was the most secret of all the Iran-Contra
scandal's secrets - read moore about it here!

Based on what today is known, there is good reason to believe that President
Reagan also was kept uninformed about the Palme murder operation.

The motive for the assassination was very complex, and related to the many
various arenas where the Reagan administration and PM Olof Palme were on
colliding courses. One of these arenas was about the Swedish arms producer
Bofors' illegal deliveries of heavy weapons and ammunition to Iran, which
later was revealed to be part of the Iran-Contra scandal. In the autumn
of 1985, UN Peace Mediator in the Iran/Iraq war and Prime Minister Olof
Palme stopped the shipments after he had been made aware of them.

John P Anderson was among the protesters taking to the streets in the US
during the Vietnam War. Just like a number of former CIA agents that based
on their knowledge have exposed the operations of an alleged shadow government
in the US, Anderson has chosen to use a cover name, for the sake of survival.

LR knows Anderson's real identity. Contrary to other media, we are letting
Anderson express his opinions freely, since we believe he is credible. His
work is based on documentation that cannot be published in LR, to protect
his sources as well as the security of Anderson and his family in the United
States.Anders Leopold

(Updated 2013-01-19)

By John P AndersonThe responsibility for Olof Palme's murder belongs with the CIA and
the political network in the world controlled by the American intelligence
apparatus.
I tend to think that the CIA and George Bush are the "bad guys"
here.
Bush continued the policies of wars for profit with deliveries of weapons
to Iran, Iraq and the Contras.

The Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, was assassinated in 1986 as
he exited a cinema at around 10 PM with his wife. Olof Palme was certainly
a controversial politician in Sweden, and had during the decades before
his murder become controversial even outside the borders of Sweden. He became
the social democratic Prime Minister for the first time in the late 60's
and by this time he had already acquired a high profile on the Swedish political
scene and was even somewhat known on the US one. As the Vietnam quagmire
deepened, Palme took a strong stand against the American policies and even
led anti Vietnam War demonstrations through the streets of Stockholm. I
myself participated in some of these demonstrations, although I never caught
a glimpse of the well known politician.

The assassin managed to escape from the death scene , running through
some small streets towards a local park. In the aftermath of the murder,
the police authorities gravitated towards investigating the small Kurdish
community in Sweden. Soon the newspapers were filled with stories of threats
made against Palme by Kurdish extremists because of some actions taken by
Palme that were considered detrimental to the Kurdish cause. In the long
run these suspicions didn't pan out and within a few years a local Swedish
hoodlum, Krister Pettersson was indicted for the crime and subsequently
convicted of it. The conviction was appealed and the Swedish Supreme Court
soon freed Mr. Pettersson for insufficient evidence. The prosecution again
tried to bring the suspect to court but was stopped by the same Court for
similar reasons. From afar in the US I occasionally followed the developments,
noticing the mushrooming leads that seemed to point in all kinds of different
directions. Parts of the local Swedish police were suspected of the crime,
then the Kurds again, followed by other suspects like the Chilean "Operation
Condor", the European terrorist organization P2, the South African
apartheid regime's intelligence services, not to mention the local Swedish
Extreme Right.

When I first heard of the assassination I was sure it was politically
motivated. I knew for a fact that Palme was hated like few other politicians
in Sweden by his opponents, somewhat for his effectiveness but mainly for
his cutting and sarcastic political debating style that left his opponents
frequently in tatters. My own father, a farmer, was no lover of social democracy
in general, and Palme especially was like a red shirt in front of a bull
to him, leaving him frequently sputtering with indignation. It wasn't farfetched
to believe that a local Swedish political fanatic could have committed the
deed. But I thought I knew it was atypical of the Swedish temperament to
commit such a brutal political crime, the papers afterwards frequently lamented
the fact that Sweden now had lost its innocence, not unlike the US reaction
to the JFK assassination.
My early suspicions inevitably turned towards the US Intelligence Services
since I knew that they would have no qualms about getting rid of Palme if
it would further their purposes. From my studies of the Reagan administration
I knew that it was very likely that the CIA had sabotaged the Carter rescue
attempt of the American hostages in Iran. The attempt turned out to be a
disaster with helicopters and airplanes colliding even before any serious
attempt was under way. I was sure that the rumors of the "October Surprise"
were correct, since even a Reagan insider confirmed that the Reagan campaign
had closed a deal with the mullahs in Teheran to delay the release of the
American hostages so that President Carter wouldn't be able to claim credit
for the release and thus win the 1980 election.

A friend of mine, who had become tired of
my interest in the JFK assassination , suggested that political murders
in the US were no big deal, even Sweden had prominent politicians murdered.
This was during the time that the prosecution still was pursuing Krister
Pettersson, the freed suspect. I recall having to bite my tongue, since
I wanted to reply that the murder of Palme could probably be traced to the
CIA and its sister organizations. A few years later, my suspicions gained
considerable credence. During my perusal of political controversies on the
Internet I ran across a former American CIA agent by the name of "Chip"Tatum,
whose spilling of the beans were interesting to say the least. According
to Tatum, the US had been awash in political shenanigans during the 80's
, the CIA had financed the Contras with drug sales in targeted black neighborhoods
and corrupted the then Governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, in the process.
All this activity was headed by George Bush, the Vice President. Any individual
standing in the way of this criminal operation was summarily done away with.
I bolted upright when Tatum revealed that the Prime Minister of Sweden,
Olof Palme, was murdered on behalf of a hidden organization, the OSG, which
had a certain colonel Oliver North in a leading role. North's ultimate superior
was Vice President George Bush.

I quickly drew the conclusion, that the investigation into Palme's murder
was the same type of cover-up operation as the Warren Commission had been.
It seemed to me that the reach of the American intelligence agencies extended
all the way into the top echelons of Sweden's political elite and police
authority. In my mind I conjured up training facilities somewhere in the
US, where naïve Swedish politicians and police investigators were sent
to learn how to run an investigation in such a fashion that the cover-up
would have a minimal chance of being exposed. I have a feeling that their
teachers were somewhat confounded with some of the careless statements by
leading Swedish pupils though. One investigator let slip: "If the truth
about the assassination of Olof Palme were ever to be known, it would shake
Sweden to its foundation!" Another commented: "It would be best
if the murder of Palme were never solved."

One of my suspicions from the elections of 1992, the fact that there
had to be some political dirty tricks behind the inexplicable withdrawal
of candidate Perot during the summer of 1992, turned out to be correct.
"Salandria's Law" definitively suggested that some action on behalf
of the Bush campaign had caused Perot's damaging exit, and Tatum confirmed
it, in fact he revealed that this episode was the determining factor in
his decision to quit intelligence activities. Tatum had been approached
by the OSG and Bush to assassinate Perot, but had refused, since he didn't
want to be involved in the killing of American citizens as opposed to foreign
ones. He informed the shocked officials that he had stacked away evidence
of criminal activities by the Reagan/Bush administrations in at least six
countries, and if he didn't check in at certain times, these recipients
were to release the documents. He agreed to let himself be framed on minor
charges in order to acquire a felon status that could be used against him
in case he went public, but when his wife was subsequently also jailed,
Tatum went public anyway. Since a few years now, he has disappeared totally
from the scene, some say he has made a deal with the establishment to keep
quiet and some say he probably has been mixed in concrete and is resting
on the ocean floor.

In early 1999, I had managed to acquire a tape featuring "Chip"
Tatum, where he disclosed how Palme had been set up and murdered, and I
was pondering if it was worth it to try to alert Swedish newspapers to the
fact that this valuable tape existed. I decided to write a story about the
new evidence and sent it by e-mail to the three largest Swedish newspapers.
Then I proceeded to wait to see if there would be any reaction. I was soon
disappointed, there were no mention of this new angle to the continuing
Palme investigation. In fact, other gossipy assassination angles frequently
appeared, but the tape of Tatum disappeared into the dark recesses of the
papers.

(But not on Leopold Report, here you can listen
to the short sequence when Gene Tatum talk about the Palmemurder and more than one hour about the background):Listen to the tape
here

One such story featured the Kurd leader, Ocalan, who with the help of CIA
had been captured by Turkish authorities and transported in bondage to Turkey.
Soon afterwards reports from Turkey had Ocalan saying to his captors that
his former wife was behind the assassination of Palme. I had to laugh to
myself, the CIA and its Turkish sister organization certainly didn't waste
any time putting out disinformation.

Later I ran across a Swedish retired journalist, who had set up a web
site about the Palme murder. This journalist, who during his career often
had met with Palme, was on the right track when he thought that it was worthwhile
to pursue the CIA angle of the assassination. I decided to sent him the
story I had written for the Swedish papers and hit pay dirt. Within a few
days he had plastered a shortened version on his web site, where the story
promptly died. Not one paper followed up on the revelations. I quickly drew
some conclusions about the reach of the American intelligence agencies,
they obviously had their tentacles all the way into the managing structures
of the main Swedish media. Here is the whole story from which excerpts were
published:

"My name is John Anderson, I was born in Sweden, emigrated to the
United States in the 1970’s. During my youth I participated in anti
Vietnam War demonstrations in Stockholm and saw Olof Palme as a political
hero of mine. As we all know Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 and the
case is still unsolved although there is an abundance of theories about
who and what was behind the assassination. Since the advent of the Internet
I have been able to follow the news in Sweden about the continuing investigation
while living in the United States slowly absorbing its culture and political
secrets. This perspective of mine, gained over the last two decades, have
led me to a simple conclusion. The responsibility for Olof Palme’s
murder belongs with the CIA and the political network controlled by the
American intelligence apparatus. In my hands I have a tape of a CIA “black
bag operative” stating knowledge of a decision by the same apparatus
to eliminate Palme using a South African operative. I believe this person
to be telling the truth. How did I arrive at such a conclusion.

I grew up with a youthful admiration for all things American, not unusual
in the late 50’s and early 60’s. As I gained more knowledge this
was tempered by my distaste for US support of all “Tin Pot dictators”
around the world and of course because of Vietnam. A defining moment in
my life was the assassination of JFK in 1963. Since I came to the US I have
studied this assassination a great deal and in the process discovered the
truth about American democracy. Not only was there a coup d’etate in
1963, but the modern history of the USA is bunk, a myth propagated by the
mastering of “public relations” at the service of a “Shadow
Government” instituted in 1947 if not earlier.

In order to understand what has happened we need to go back to the 30’s.
The Great Depression brought FDR to power and with him policies that were
abhorred by the powers that be in the USA. Within a year of FDR’s ascent
to the Presidency, large parts of the establishment were conspiring to overthrow
FDR in favor of a fascist state. This is verifiable history, the coup failed
because the general, who had been tapped to lead the overthrow balked. The
media wouldn’t reveal the coup attempt since the economic elite was
behind it. This same elite watched Hitler tame the depression by turning
his countrymen against the Jews and establishing a war economy while profits
were still low to nonexistent back home. They watched Hitler go down in
flames and they decided that what was needed for the USA was a set-up like
Hitler’s but concealed in such a way that the people would have no
reason to object to fascist policies.

And this is exactly what they created in the years following WWII. The
enemy was easy and right around the corner, world wide Communism, even better
than the Jews, by now we know that the war economy lasted for a half century,
it hasn’t petered out yet because there are always other enemies right
around the corner. The public relations and other aspects of the new system
fell to the newly created CIA, which has put its operatives in every elite
media institution in such a clever way that the vast majority of the people
have no idea that they are spoon fed only approved news.

Here, finally, are the reasons for all undemocratic policies the US has
followed since WWII, the establishment knew of no other way of keeping a
modern economy going but through the creation of a series of wars supported
by the people through secret manipulation.

George Herbert Walker Bush was recruited
by the CIA in the 50’s, he was part and parcel of the ”Bay of
Pigs” invasion in 1961, he became CIA director in 1976 to protect the
agency, he directed the efforts to defeat President Carter successfully
through dirty tricks like sabotage of the Carter rescue mission to Teheran
in 1979, he then closed a deal with the Iranians to delay the release of
the American hostages so that Ronald Reagan would be elected, whereupon
he wrestled the presidency away from Reagan with the help of the CIA. He
continued the policies of wars for profit with deliveries of weapons to
Iran, Iraq and the Contras.

Regarding Iran though, he had a problem, these deliveries had to be kept
a secret because Iran was an enemy. In order to accomplish this he needed
third countries to collude with him by allowing “end certificates”
for weapons to be routed through their countries to Iran. And this is where
Olof Palme met his destiny, he was approached about letting Bofors route
American weapons to Iran through false “end certificates” and
he refused. By this time the powers that be had policies in force to “align”
wobbly and weak-kneed leaders of nations within the US sphere of influence.
So Palme was “aligned” by a South African operative. There is
no doubt that influential Swedish politicians know what happened as well
as parts of the Swedish police, but they are precluded from revealing what
they know through threats and their own powerlessness. As far as all the
false leads leading nowhere, this is the specialty of CIA since JFK’s
murder. They are masters at this game, the way they win is when people are
so confused that they throw up their arms in defeat.The name of the CIA
operative is Dois Gene Chip Tatum.

Later I sent the audio file with Tatum commenting on the murder, which
ended up on the web page. Still not a word from the established Swedish
media, although the site had hits approaching 50,000 per month. Recently
this site had visits from 34 countries during one specific month, including
visits from US military and government personnel!